Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANOI’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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